by Frank Holmes, reporter
Five years after her attempt to maximize foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation by becoming president, the walls may finally be closing in on Hillary Clinton — and justice is being dished up in the most delicious way possible.
Federal prosecutors spent years going after a Lebanese-born American businessman named George Nader because they thought he held part of the key to Russiagate. Robert Mueller even interviewed him for his infamous report on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign supposed “collusion” with Moscow.
All of that went nowhere — but Nader may be headed to the big house. He allegedly used $3.5 million in money from a foreign nation to try to get Hillary Clinton elected president in 2016, when he felt so close to the Clinton family that he referred to Hillary as his “Big Sister.”
Oh yeah, he’s also a convicted child molester.
Nader received almost $5 million from the United Arab Emirates, or UAE, to illegally influence the 2016 presidential contest and poured it all over the Democratic Party, prosecutors said. The money was supposed to make sure America instituted favorable policies toward UAE’s leader, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed — MBZ of the UAE.
Nader sent the cash to a business contact in Los Angeles named Ahmad Khawaja, or “Andy” to the public. “Andy” dumped $3.5 million of the money “given to Democratic political committees working to elect Clinton, according to the U.S. government, which has accused Nader, Khawaja, and six others of working together to conceal the origin of those funds,” according to a left-wing news website called The Intercept, which was led for years by Fox News guest Glenn Greenwald.
Prosecutors say Nader, Khawaja, and six other people covered up the fact that these funds came from the UAE — and therefore would be illegal for Hillary Clinton’s campaign to accept.
Not only did Hillary Clinton accept it, but she also met with Nader personally. So did her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The meeting went so well, they reportedly made him feel like part of the Clinton family.
Nader wrote to MBZ that he was with Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2016. An e-mail said Nader would be “traveling on Sat morning to catch up with our Big Sister and her husband: I am seeing him on Sunday and her in [sic] Tuesday Sir!”
And there’s little doubt among critics this was done to deliberately shift U.S. foreign policy toward the MBZ—if you prefer, you could call it a bribe.
The Trump administration’s Justice Department said in court documents that Nader acted “out of a desire to lobby on behalf and advance the interests of his client, the government of the United Arab Emirates.”
It “was a purpose of the conspiracy to facilitate unlawful campaign contributions from Nader, through Khawaja, to political committees … to gain access to and influence with (Hillary Clinton) and others during and following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.”
Prosecutors pointed last month to a July 2016 message from Nader to a senior UAE official in which he said he was “catching up with key figures in both camps” and “developing a steady, consistent and constructive relationship with both camps!”
It was another foreign contribution to the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign — and it’s one prosecutors are going to punish.
The Justice Department accused Nader of “conspiracy to make conduit contributions, cause false statements, and cause false entries in records.” In December, the Justice Department announced Nader posted a guilty plea a few months earlier to one felony count of conspiracy for trying to cover up the foreign origin of Clinton’s campaign cash.
Four of the other eight men named in the indictment have reportedly admitted they are guilty of trying to grease Hillary Clinton’s palms with Arab oil money.
But bribery is the least of Nader’s legal problems. He’s already serving 10 years in prison for child porn and flying a 14-year-old boy into the U.S. “for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual activity.”
It’s not like Hillary didn’t know: In 2003 Nader was convicted in the Czech Republic for child molestation.
What is it with the Clintons, foreign bribery, and child molestation?
Whatever it is, federal prosecutors should get to the bottom of it… especially before she knocks Joe Biden out of his perch atop the Democratic Party and becomes its 2024 presidential nominee.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative who talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”